Every time the price of steem goes up, it makes it harder to purchase! So if you want to get steem power (I highly recommend at least making it to the second stage of user-- the yellow fish), you need to buy your steem asap before it becomes unaffordable! Think about this. The price of Steem used to be 10 CENTS! And now it's more like $1.25! So it's like 12.5 TIMES HARDER to get a good account on here. See what I mean now? Everybody needs to get 500 steem power which is I believe what you need to be a yellow fish.